Processor
Modern processors provide
- control, arithmetic, logic, bit operators
- relatively small set of simple operations
- with a range of ways to determine data locations
- small amount of very fast storage (registers)
- small number of control registers (e.g. PC)
- fast fetch-decode-execute cycle (ns)
- access to system bus to communicate with other components
- all integrated on a single chip
We do not consider multi-core CPUs in this course
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